Display rack



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UNITED sTArgEs JAMES H. BURDETT; OF HOMEWOOD, ILLINOIS.

nisPLAY RACK.

Application led November 21, 1924. Serial No. 751,321.

While this invention may be applicablel for displaying various articles, it is particularly intended for holding and displaying packages of garden seeds or the like. Va-

rious form of racks or holders have been heretofore .utilized but these have usually been more or less complicated in construction and expensive to manufacture. The present invention relates to arack or holder which will not only support a comparatively large number of packages of flower seeds but will also display them in an attractive manner.

The objects of this invention are to provide a new and improved rack for displaying various articles; to provide a combined advertising card and rack for supporting articles to be displayed or sold; to provide a display rack for garden seeds which may be cheaply constructed but which will be particularly attractive in appearance and useful in operation; and in general to provide such an improved device as will be described more fully in the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating this invention; p

Figure l is a front view of the rack showing packages in some of the receptacles or pockets;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line2-2 of Figure l;

Figure 3 is a sectional vienT taken on the line 3 3 .of Figure 2;y and Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the pockets or holding members.

My improved display rack has a board or plate 5 which may be made of any suitable material but 'which is preferably .made of paper board or mat board which enables the i rack to be made at a low cost. The upper portion or rack is preferably made in an ornamental form and may contain such advertising mat-ter or illustration as desired. Such advertising matter is of course preferably directed to the articles to be supported by the rack. The board or plate 5 may be suspended or supported in any desired man- Laer but in the present instance it is shown in the form of an easel being supported by rearwardly projecting supports 6, but the present invention is not limited to the particular form or arrangement of such supports.

The board or plate 5 is provided with a plurality of holes or openings 7 and supporting flaps or pockets 8 are arranged be- CII hind the openings for supporting the arti` cles to be displayed as for instance the packages of seeds as shown at 9. may be made of any suitable materialand secured to the plate in any .desired manner but are preferably formed of paper and fastened to the back of the plate as shown in Figure 2. Each opening may be provided with a separate flap or pocket as indicated in the upper central opening or a single flap may extend across two ormore openings as shown by dotted lines in the upper right hand part of Figure l.

These flaps or pockets may be left plain or the freut portions thereof which are exposed through the openings may be illustrated as shown in Figure l so that even if the packages are removed from any pocket it will stillhave the appearance of having a Vpackage therein and furthermore when the These flaps device is used for displaying iower seed the front of the pockets will add to the pleasing appearance of the device as a whole.

My improved rack may be constructed at a suiciently low cost so that new racks may be furnished from time to time or the supply of packages may be delivered in the racks without adding materially to the cost of the goods. made in various sizes and shapes for different sized packages or for different kinds of goods to be `displayed therein and therefore I do not wish to be limited to the exact arrangement or construction'herein shown and described except as specified in the followin claims in which I claim:

l. A display device for seed packets, coinprising a board having a plurality of openings extending therethrough, a flexible strip secured to the top and bottom `edges of each of said openings to form pockets', the length of each of said strips being such as to cause the bottoni portions of the said pockets to fall a substantial distance below the bottom portions of said openings.

2. A display device, comprising aboard having a plurality of vertically aligned openings extending therethrough, flexible strips secured at the top and bottom of each of said openings to form pockets, the length of each of said strips being such as to cause the bottom portions thereof to sag a substantial distance below the lower edge of its corresponding opening and overlap the pocket formed directly thereunder.

JAMES H. BURDETT.

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